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...first received public notice as a war correspondent during the Boer War. In 1900, when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, he was elected to the House of Commons, where he served--except for the years 1922-1924--until October, 1964. His Parliamentary career was the longest in British history...
MacBride's father led the Irish brigade that fought against the British in the Boer War, was later executed by the British for his part in Ireland's famous Easter Rising of 1916. MacBride's mother was the legendary Maud Gonne, heroine of Ireland's revolt and of Poet W. B. Yeats, who called her "a phoenix in my youth." MacBride spent his own youth bombing British armored cars, commanded the outlaw Irish Republican Army while studying and practicing law in the 1930s. A top Dublin barrister, he later became Ireland's Minister of External...
...first guerrilla war of modern times was neither Lawrence's campaigns in Arabia nor the Boer War-two of the usual candidates-but the century-long struggle of the Irish for independence from Britain. The Irish experience, in its factionalism and atrocious savagery, was just like the more recent guerrilla wars, but it is set off from the others by its sense of Irish gaiety in the midst of bloodletting, of poetry rising from its bitterness. Thus the most rousing songs of the best Irish tenors celebrate some irregular victory or bravely borne defeat. And it is just this...
Staggering Markups. Promoters have also made millions by buying prospectors' claims and selling them at staggering markups to speculators. Much of the Timmins land is owned by descendants of Boer War veterans, who were granted the mining rights in perpetuity. One promoter tracked down an heir in Buffalo, paid him $400 for his rights, sold them the next day for $30,000. There has been more claim jumping in Timmins in the last two months than in the previous 50 years...
...Nicholas Joy, 80, London-born character actor whose hair turned grey at 22, giving him a half-century to play an all-purpose, Anglo-American Blimp-the lean, mean subspecies-in more than 100 plays and films, notably The Philadelphia Story (Hepburn's papa), The Iceman Cometh (the Boer War bore), sitting in so many stage wing chairs puffing Corona Coronas that he developed phlebitis, occupational ailment of English clubmen; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...